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Bug#362777: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#363918: Package needs to be rebuilt against new version of libxrender-dev. Cannot build KphotoAlbum against it.



On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:08:22PM +0100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 16:36, David L. Moreno wrote:
> > File /usr/lib/libXrender.la is no longer provided by libxrender-dev
> > package (See bug #362777). However, libkipi-dev is compiled with an
> > old version of libxrender-dev, so it requires to have that file
> > present when an application is linked to it.
> [...]
> > This should be fixed with a simple rebuild of the library.

> Thanks David,

> Uploading a rebuilt binary package (libkexif0-dev) now, to close this bug.

> Btw, you can also request a 'Binary-only non-maintainer upload' without filing 
> a bug through debian-release@lists.debian.org.

> Does this mean that other packages which are compiled with the old version
> of libxrender-dev also require a binNMU? 

Yes, they do.

> Is there any easy way to determine which packages require a rebuild fr 
> libxrender?  libkexif0-dev didn't have any explicit depends on libxrender..

Unfortunately not.  The candidate set of affected packages is "all packages
which transitively build-depend on libxrender-dev or libxcursor-dev and ship
.la files".  A very irritating set to calculate...

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